16 extradition requests from India pending with UK

There are 16 extradition requests from India pending with the UK government, Lok Sabha was informed today.
Replying to a written question, Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh said all the information and evidence available have been provided to the UK authorities for speedy execution of India's requests for extradition.
Asked whether there were 131 extradition requests by India pending with the UK, he said, "As on date, there are 16 extradition requests pending...Our High Commission in London pursues these requests regularly with the concerned authorities in the UK."
Earlier in February, Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju had said there were 131 extradition requests pending with the UK. Rijiju also raised the issue during a meeting with visiting Minister of State for Immigration of the United Kingdom, James Brokenshire, who had said these matters are handled by British courts.

Brokenshire had said the provision of death penalty in India and the European Commission's provisions on human rights were posing hurdles in acceding to the requests.
Singh also said that there was no proposal under consideration to sign an agreement with the UK on exchange of information about criminals.
"However, bilateral exchange of information about fugitive criminals comes under the ambit of mutual legal assistance covered under the India-UK Agreement Concerning the Investigations and Prosecution of Crime and the Tracing, Restraints and Confiscation of the Proceeds and Instrument of Crime (including currency transfers) and Terrorist Funds, which came into force in 1995," Singh added.